Southeast Review of Asian Studies 2004 (full report)

      Content

• Trying to Avoid a Japanese-American War: America's "Japan Connection" in 1937 and 1941

• Taiwan’s 2004 Presidential Election: Implications for Taiwan's Politics and Relations with Mainland China

• The New Look of Urban China: Public Squares as Symbols of Modernity

• "Some Unseen Power:" Observations of Hinduism in the Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley

• Narrative and Peace

• Politeness as a Social Strategy in Japanese Culture

• Refusing To Serve: Five Korean American Poets

• Origins in Religious Ritual of Asian Puppet Theatre Forms and the Marginalization of Theatre Artists

       Book Reviews and Essays

• John Nathan. Japan Unbound: A Volatile Nation’s Quest for Pride and Purpose

• Andrew Marshall, The Trouser People: A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire

• Chia Lin Sien, Editor. Southeast Asia Transformed: A Geography of Change

• James L. Huffman, A Yankee in Meiji Japan: The Crusading Journalist Edward H. House